For more than three decades, Carsten Höller has transformed the exhibition space into a site of experiment, uncertainty, and altered perception. Trained as a scientist before turning to art, Höller creates installations, sculptures, architectural environments, and participatory works that place viewers inside situations whose outcomes remain deliberately unresolved. From slides, carousels, and upside-down goggles to sensory environments and experiments with plants and animals, his work asks how experience is constructed—and how easily it can be changed.

Bringing together works from across Höller’s career, Carsten Höller examines the persistent relationship between science, play, doubt, and participation that runs through his practice. Featuring two newly commissioned critical essays and an extensive conversation with the artist, the volume offers an in-depth account of one of the most distinctive and influential artistic practices to emerge since the 1990s.